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Book Excerpt – Red Star Over the Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy.
Toshi Yoshihara and James Holmes present the second edition of their important work on this timely topic.
- China has a dream.
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials tell us so.
- Toshi Yoshihara and James Holmes
- The National Interest
President Xi Jinping, who ranks first among them, made “Chinese Dream” his credo soon after ascending to China’s top post in 2012.
And this is no mere slogan; it encapsulates CCP officialdom’s vision of China’s purposes and aspirations, first and foremost of which is “the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.”
President Xi proclaims that fulfilling this “great renewal” constitutes “the greatest dream for the…